Topic: Friend or Foe

[Paulines7]

Can anyone tell me what this is and if it is a friend or foe please?  I keep coming across them in the garden and usually feed them to the chickens.   ;D

[Gordon]

hi

This is a centipede as for it being friend or foe I don't know.

Gordon

[tim]

Centipedes (quick) are good - millipedes (slow) are bad.

[Robert_Brenchley]

That's a common soil-dwelling centipede which must eat a lot of invertebrates over its lifetime. I never deliberately harm a centipede, they're too useful as predators.

[jennym]

Chap I know says one way to remember what is friendy and what isn't, is the speed at which they travel, because things that attack plants are relatively slow.
It makes some sort of sense because plants can't run away from attackers. Expect there will be exceptions though.

[Paulines7]

Thanks everyone.  I wonder how many legs it has?   :-\  ::)  ;D

[MrsKP]

i saw one the other day and thought exactly the same ...... should i tread on it or not ???  as it happens it was too quick for me so i'm quite relieved now. angle shades will be pleased.

 ;D

[angle shades]

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